title: Psychometric properties of the Miranda Rights Comprehension Instruments with a juvenile justice sample.
abstract: This article describes the psychometric properties of the Miranda Rights Comprehension Instruments, the revised version of Grisso's Miranda instruments. The original instruments demonstrated good reliability and validity in a normative sample. The revised instruments updated the content of the original instruments and were administered to a sample of 183 youth in pre- and postadjudication facilities. Analyses were conducted to establish the psychometric properties of the revised instruments and included similar analyses to those conducted by Grisso, as well as additional calculations (e.g., standard errors of measurement, intraclass correlation coefficients, Kappa coefficients). Results revealed sound psychometric properties, similar to those observed for the original instruments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Drexel University, MS 626, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192, USA. neg23@drexel.edu
authors.forename: Naomi E Sevin
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: Christina L Riggs
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Romaine
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zelle
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kalbeitzer
authors.forename: Constance
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mesiarik
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolbransky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D032882:Comprehension; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D015143:Philadelphia; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult